This Finance analyst role sits within the Germany Stores Finance team in Munich supporting Amazons largest EU marketplace a multi-billion dollar business spanning Retail and third-party (3P) sales across Germany Austria and Switzerland. Youll provide end-to-end topline financial analysis that directly informs how the DE business plans forecasts and accelerates growth partnering with senior commercial marketplace and operations leaders to identify and quantify revenue opportunities across a complex fast-moving P&L.
The Germany Stores Finance team sits at the heart of Amazons EU commercial this role youll act as a key finance partner to DE senior management owning topline planning weekly and monthly performance reporting and forward-looking forecasting across FBA MFN and marketplace channels. Your analysis will feed directly into decisions on growth initiatives deal strategy and competitive positioning. Youll build and maintain automated auditing and forecasting tools (including AI-driven solutions) lead financial reviews across a broader EU Marketplace Finance community and drive continuous improvement in how the team tracks explains and influences topline performance. This is a role with direct line of sight between your output and the strategic direction of one of the most commercially consequential businesses within Amazons European operations with real scope to grow your EU footprint over time.
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Key job responsibilities
- Lead strategic financial projects and provide expert analysis for business-critical decisions
- Partner with cross-functional teams to optimize profitability and operational efficiency
- Develop and implement best practices through collaboration with global finance teams
- Create financial transparency and identify areas for business improvement
- Conduct comprehensive analysis and review business cases to support strategic initiatives
A day in the life
Youll partner with leadership teams to analyse business performance develop financial models and identify opportunities for growth. Your day might include conducting deep-dive analyses collaborating with operations teams on process improvements or presenting insights to stakeholders.
About the team
Our Finance team in Germany is dedicated to driving business success through data-driven insights and strategic financial planning. We foster a collaborative environment where diverse perspectives are valued and team members support each other in achieving shared goals.
- Bachelors degree in finance accounting or related field
- Experience delivering forecasting budgeting and variance analysis and data interpretation of results or experience in solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models analysis and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g. financial savings operational improvements or customer benefits)
- Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses or experience in building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making
- Experience using complex modeling and analysis to inform key business decisions
- Experience in commercial finance business partnering or FP&A (at multinational organisation.)
- English B2 language proficiency
- MBA or CPA
- Knowledge of Tableau
- Experience participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results
- Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL MS Access Essbase Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle SAP Lawson JD Edwards)
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1